The BEST episodes of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Every episode of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal!
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian sci-fi/drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes from 1996 to 2000. The presence of Dan Aykroyd opening and closing every episode and emphasizing the legitimacy of the organization it was inspired by led some viewers to take the show somewhat more seriously than intended, though it was in fact a scripted drama.
#1 - Reptilian Revenge / Ghostly Voices
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1996
Case File #99101: ""Reptilian Revenge"" After an elderly man dies, his pet snakes escape Case File #44114: ""Ghostly Voices"" A voice calls a woman home.
#2 - Hell Week
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/1998
Case File # 416-209 The Dean at Braddock University brings the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research in to investigate an incident involving psychokinetic power.
#3 - Dream House / UFO Encounter
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1996
Case File #34112: ""Dream House"" Blaine and Debbie McCallister summon the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research to investigate the cause of numerous strange occurrences at the site of their new home, after their teenage daughter is hospitalized as a result of a poltergeist encounter. Case File #52111: ""UFO Encounter"" Agents from the O.S.I.R. are summoned to a small town to investigate a double alien abduction of two boys and UFO sightings witnessed by many townspeople.
#4 - The Edge
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/1998
Case File #350-213 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research is called in to help locate a missing police officer.
#5 - Bad Dreams
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/1998
Case File #340-212 After a woman, recovering in her hospital bed from knee surgery, suddenly cries out from a terrifying dream and bleeds spontaneously from deep wounds, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research arrives to secure the building following the inexplicable occurrence.
#6 - Kiss of the Tiger
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/1998
Case File #936-214 Case Manager Matt Praeger brings in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research team to help his old friend David Vancha save the life of his wife Zoe.
#7 - The Haunting
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/1998
Case File #604-215 Hotel-owner Clifford Ashe calls in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research to investigate the haunting of the Ashe Plaza Hotel.
#8 - The Night of the Setting Sun
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/1998
Case File #938-216 A dealer of rare animals breaks into an abandoned factory with an accomplice, who afterwards is pulled back into the complex by some unseen presence.
#9 - The Labyrinth
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/13/1998
Case File #309-217 When a city worker is killed by a wave of light and sound, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research is called in to investigate.
#10 - Pentimento
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/20/1998
Case File #721-219 When a horrific murder takes place, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research gets a call to come to a gallery where they find a body strung from the ceiling in the back room, his clothing shredded and his eyes ground into their sockets.
#11 - Frozen Faith
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/1998
Case File #721-219 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research investigates a suburban home in which the living room has become an icy chamber.
#12 - Map to the Stars
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1998
Case File #420-202 Case Manager Matt Praeger flies to Halifax to bail out Michael Kelly, who has been arrested for being drunk and disorderly.
#13 - The Endangered
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/1998
Case File #104-723 When a huge beast charges out of the woods and rips man's limb, a local police calls in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research to identify the attacker.
#14 - The Egress (1)
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/1998
Case File #102-964 Ray Donahue and Peter Axon fan out through a secret research facility searching for Axon's friend Dr. Leon Schraft, a colleague from Axon's MIT days.
#15 - Jaunt (2)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1998
Case File #898750 As the third season begins, physicist Peter Axon is the only remaining member of the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research team. Dr. Anton Hendricks is apparently dead, having disappeared into a mysterious apportation device known as the Arch, case manager Matt Praeger has tendered his resignation after differences with the O.S.I.R.'s Director of Operations Frank Elsinger and senior data analyst Lindsay Donner has left the team after running afoul of Praeger and revealing confidential information. Axon and Curtis Rollins, the case manager assigned to the Arch case, take their investigation to a remote area of northern Quebec after an RCMP officer finds a woman wandering alone in the sub-tundra. It turns out the woman had vanished into the Arch and then re-appeared 2,000 miles away. Lindsay Donner and Matt Praeger rejoin the team to recover Hendricks from the Arch.
#16 - Comings and Goings (3)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1998
Case File #751718 Following a memorial service for Dr. Anton Hendricks the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research team members receive an anonymous phone call informing them that Hendricks is at a nearby hospital unconscious and on a ventilator.
#17 - Heartland
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1998
Case File #898777 When a forest area turns into a bone-dry wasteland virtually overnight, a government agriculture official turns to the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research for help.
#18 - The Kiss
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1998
Case File #145345 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research is called into action when the mutilated corpse of a police detective who gunned down an escaped convict is found in a dumpster.
#19 - Absolution
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1998
Case File #569-977 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research case manager Matt Praeger is institutionalized after a case goes tragically wrong. Working undercover as an arms dealer in order to gain access to a teenager with ESP Praeger gets caught in the middle of a double cross and apparently fires the bullet that kills the youth.
#20 - All Hallows Eve
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1998
Case File #659-311 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research case manager Matt Praeger, security co-ordinator Ray Donahue, chief science analyst Peter Axon and senior data analyst Lindsay Donner visit the scene of a grisly, pre-Halloween murder of two college students who died after having their faces torn off.
#21 - Palimpsest
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1998
Case File #600-001 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research investigates after the body of an elderly woman is found in the basement of a soon-to-be demolished apartment building.
#22 - Return
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1998
Case File #965-789 Dr. Anton Hendricks' wife has recently returned from a mysterious apportation device called the Arch, into which she vanished 12 years ago. Hendricks has become increasingly suspicious that she is not the Catherine he knew.
#23 - Harlequin
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1998
Case File #828-456 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research investigates the unusual death of a large South American rodent called a capybara at the Windsor Animal Hospice.
#24 - Little People
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1998
Case File #790-002 Matt Praeger's daughter, Dana, is sleeping over at the country home of her friend, Vanessa, when the girls hear a strange noise coming from the bedroom of Vanessa's adopted brother. The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research team arrives at the house to conduct an ""unofficial"" investigation.
#25 - The Winding Cloth
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/24/1999
Case File #340-872 Archaeologist and former lover of Lindsay Donner finds a 13th century burial shroud inside an ancient Druid coffin. At his request, Donner and the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research team join him in London to verify the authenticity of the ""winding cloth"" and identify the man buried in it.